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Poets , he says , need such protectors ; and he fancies that when he himself shall have fulfilled his mortal task , some Manso will follow him to the grave and erect a marble statue in his memory . There is a wistful sincerity in ...
Poets , he says , need such protectors ; and he fancies that when he himself shall have fulfilled his mortal task , some Manso will follow him to the grave and erect a marble statue in his memory . There is a wistful sincerity in ...
Page 107
What the poet says of sight - seeing in Naples with Manso as a guide opens vistas of conjecture . The city itself , “ metropolis of the Campania and queen of all south Italy , " was above all a spectacle of Spanish military power .
What the poet says of sight - seeing in Naples with Manso as a guide opens vistas of conjecture . The city itself , “ metropolis of the Campania and queen of all south Italy , " was above all a spectacle of Spanish military power .
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There Milton himself may have stayed , for he says that he was daily in Diodati's society . He could now at last discourse of politics and religion to sympathetic instead of hostile ears . The environment was one calculated to confirm ...
There Milton himself may have stayed , for he says that he was daily in Diodati's society . He could now at last discourse of politics and religion to sympathetic instead of hostile ears . The environment was one calculated to confirm ...
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| Title | John Milton, Englishman |
| Author | James Holly Hanford |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gollancz, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Dec 2005 |
| Length | 314 pages |
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